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Vista - English Version

Vista Journal

View
is surface and distance. Landscape and pathway. Horizon and possibility. With
the emergence of photography, the word viewsteps into the designation of landscape.
Used by the first photographers to refer to the resulting clichés of their
expeditions, the notion of view conveys the advent of our dense universe of
technical images and, most of all, signals the conversion of a world seen from
the perspective of art into a world represented from the much broader horizon
of social iconography and visual culture (that encompasses fine arts and
photography, as well as cinema, television, videogames, fashion, advertising,
comics, graffiti,…).

Since
the 1990’s, with the announcement of the pictorial turn, visual culture became
a recurring and privileged focus of interest within the humanities and social
sciences. Vista appears in this
context as a semi-annual publication in the field of Communication Sciences.
Conceived in 2015 by the Visual Culture Working Group of the Portuguese
Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM), it aims the promotion of a
transdisciplinary debate around culture’s visual mediation processes
(photography, cinema, television, advertising, videogames and digital media,…).

Vista
has the following goals:

- to
promote the critical thinking on image and the study of visual objects within
the field of communication sciences;

- to
bring out a set of studies, resulting from different scientific domains,
several geographical backgrounds and diverse historical moments, which
translate heterogeneous theoretical and methodological frameworks around visual
culture;

- to
diversify the objects of analysis within the vast domain of image studies in
order to broaden the sharing of the visible, actively contributing to a
politics of vision;

- to
encourage scientific contributions as well as sundry visual projects in areas
such as photography, video art, urban art, contributing to question the
existing boundaries between scientific culture and artistic culture.

Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s image, in accordance with the social aspects and the cultural contexts that characterize them.

To the multidisciplinary approach of media and digital literacy, intergenerational issue is added as the starting point of this issue, which seeks to delve into the fact that the media experience occurs in differentiated conditions, characterized by different cultural (media and digital) competences between generations: analogical and digital citizens, emigrants and digital natives. From the family portraits to the selfies of our smartphones, from soap opera and TV series to social networks. Images produced and consumed get increased from a diversity of experiences and memories, from a multiplicity of lifestyles and media uses, which is worth to be rethought from the idea of ​​"generations".

Which are the visual environments of socialization for the different generations? What influences do they exercise in their daily lives, in their experience, and in their memory? What is the role of visual and media literacy in the process of understanding the relationship between different generations and the different media? How visual culture contributes to the pedagogical processes? Does the generational perspective contribute for the understanding of the image transformation and impact in contemporaneity? Is the visual culture an approaching element among generations? Which are the more suited proposals and theoretical reflections in the current context? Is the visual culture an inspiring element to favor participative methodologies in this field? Can digital age and its visual culture favor generational barriers? Does the digital visual culture assume an intergenerational perspective?

vista - visual culture journal is a peer-reviewed journal and operates under a double blind review process. Each submitted work will be send to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, in accordance with the academic quality, originality and relevance for the objectives and scope of the issue of this edition of the journal. Articles can be submitted in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French to the e-mails of the invited editors: apepanda@gmail.com; britesmariajose@gmail.com;inesamaral@gmail.com. Guidelines for authors can be found here.

Important Dates

Deadline for the submission of papers: 15th March 2019

Deadline for the submission of papers extended to: 31st March 2019

Deadline for notifications of acceptance: 29th April 2019

Publication: 31st July 2019

Permanent Call for Papers

Submissions for vista - visual culture journal are open permanently. Articles, reviews (books, films, exhibitions ...), conversations and visual projects around the subject of the image and written in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French are accepted. The publication guide are available here. The proposals can be sent to the email of the journal: vista.culturavisual@gmail.com

Guide for Authors

a) Works proposed to Vista should be submitted electronically through
the email address vista.culturavisual@gmail.com.

b) Files consisting of the article draft should be annexed in an
editable format (.doc, .docx, .rtf or OpenOffice). PDF documents will not be
accepted.

c) All works must be accompanied by the identification of author(s),
institutional affiliation and e-mail address(es).

d) Each article must be accompanied by an abstract, included in the
article page, in three languages (original language, Portuguese and English),
with a maximum of 250 words, and 3-5 keywords.

e) If the submitted article includes visual elements, these must be sent
separately (according to the indications stipulated for ‘Graphic Materials and Visual Elements’).

f) Articles should be submitted along with the following documents: f1)
A declaration signed by all authors, stating that i) the text is original; ii)
there is no conflicts of interest; f2) A copyright transfer declaration to
Vista.

- chapters’ titles: two heading levels, numbered with Arabic and unnumbered
in the Introduction and Conclusion texts.

- quotations: If the quotation comprises fewer than 40 words, it
should be incorporated into text and enclosed with double quotation marks; if
it comprises 40 or more words, it should be displayed in a freestanding block
of text, without quotation marks, non-italic and Arial 10.

- footnotes: numbered in Arabic without parentheses, Arial 9, line
spacing 1,5. Footnotes should not be indented in the first paragraph.

- foreign words: foreign words must be italicized;

2. Graphic Materials and Visual
Elements

The non-textual elements – e.g. tables, graphics, images or video –
should be identified using continuous Arabic numbering for each of the elements
and they should be sent separately in .jpeg, .tiff or vector EPS format, with a
resolution of at least 300 dpi. For videos, we accept avi, mp4, mkv and mov
files. File format for graphics and
images should be JPEG or TIFF. Each file is named with a number, indicating the
order in which each image appears in the article. In the main body text, we
should find the references, the numbers and the captions of these figures.

3. Funding Acknowledgements

They should be placed at the end of the article, before the References
section. The identification of the funding entities must contain their complete
designation. In the case of more than one entity, references are separated by
semicolons, the last of the list being preceded by "and".

3. References

a) References in Text

References in text follow the APA
Format – 6th Edition, as in the examples:

- one author: (Didi-Huberman, 2012);

- one author, specific page: (Didi-Huberman, 2012, p.63);

- two authors: (Evans & Hall, 1999);

- three authors: (Howard, Thompson & Waterton, 2013);

- more than three authors: (Andriopoulos et al., 2001);

- several authors and several works, ordered according to i) the year of publication ii)
the alphabetic order: (Harper, 1998; Prosser, 1998; Rose, 2000; Banks, 2001;
Pink, 2013);

b) Reference List

Entries should be arranged by alphabetic order by the surname of the
first author, at the end of the article, including only the sources used in the
article. They follow the APA Format – 6th Edition, as in examples below:

This format privileges the visual content, opening up to the
diversity of configurations that it can take, from photography to illustration,
without neglecting the audiovisual, collage or digital remix. The evaluation of
the submission will take into account mainly the quality of the images and the
visual narrative. Submissions can articulate text and image or dispense the
former, assuming the latter as a single vehicle of meaning production.
Nevertheless, the visual essay must be accompanied by a descriptive memory
capable of contextualizing the visual work, clarifying its framework,
intentions, objectives and / or methodology. It is recommended that the visual
test does not exceed 20 independent images, to be submitted in .tiff with resolution
of 300 dpi / ppp. If the audiovisual format is adopted, the video file should
not exceed 10 minutes in length. It is requested that its compression allows
the quality of visualization in different devices. The descriptive memory may
not exceed 700 words. If the essay comprises text and image, the first may not exceed
2000 words; this option does not dismiss the descriptive memory (the number of
words already mentioned will be counted separately). The visual essay must be
original and unpublished, that is, the proposal must be designed by the author
(s) / author (s) of the submission or by members of his / her team.